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SUMMARY:THE RACKET! #23: The Dark
DESCRIPTION:The summer’s over and light is getting dimmer in the evenings. Let’s gather a bunch of writerly souls together to shed a little light on THE DARK. \nDetails soon! \nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/212401529441541/ \nHosted by Noah B. Sanders
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LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Léonora Miano
DESCRIPTION:City Lights in conjunction with the Cultural Services of the Consul General of France in San Francisco present \nLéonora Miano \ncelebrating the release of \nSeason of the Shadow \nPublished by Seagull Press \nThis powerful novel presents the early days of the transatlantic slave trade from a new perspective: that of the sub-Saharan population that became its first victims. Cameroonian novelist Léonora Miano presents a world on the brink of disappearing—a pre-colonial civilization with roots that stretch back for centuries. One day\, a group of villagers find twelve of their people missing. Where have they gone? Who is responsible? A collective dream\, troubling a group of mothers in a communal dwelling\, may have some of the answers\, as the women’s missing sons call to them in terror; at the same time\, a thick shadow settles over the huts\, blocking out the light of day. It is the shadow of slavery\, which will soon grow to blight the whole world. \nMiano renders this brutal story in deliberately strange\, dreamlike prose\, befitting a situation that is\, on its face\, all but impossible for the villagers to believe. \nLéonora Miano is a Cameroonian writer who lives in France. She is author of seven novels and two collections of essays. Season of the Shadow is her second book to be translated into English; her debut novel\, Dark Heart of the Night\, won the prix Femina when it was published in French in 2013. \n\n\n\n\n 
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LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Antena: a language justice and language experimentation collaborative\, Jen Hofer and John Pluecker
DESCRIPTION:The Poetry Center’s Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series debuts September 2018 with a two-day series by poet-translator-activists Jen Hofer and John Pluecker\, who collectively organize Antena\, a language justice and language experimentation collaborative\, focusing on writing\, art- and book-making\, translating\, interpreting\, and language justice. Hofer and Pluecker\, visiting respectively from Los Angeles and Houston\, will read from their own work on Wednesday\, September 26\, at E. M. Wolfman Books in downtown Oakland\, then present their work around Antena the following evening\, Thursday\, September 27\, at The Poetry Center. Both events are free and open to the public. Please join us! \nAntena is a language justice and literary experimentation collaborative founded by Jen Hofer and John Pluecker\, both writers\, artists\, literary translators\, bookmakers and activist interpreters. Antena activates links between social justice work and artistic practice by exploring how critical views on language can help us to reimagine and rearticulate the worlds we inhabit. Antena has exhibited\, published\, performed\, organized\, advocated\, translated\, curated\, interpreted\, and/or instigated with numerous groups and institutions\, including Blaffer Art Museum\, Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics\, and Project Row Houses. Antena publishes bilingual chapbooks and pamphlets through our Libros Antena Books imprint\, and collaborates with BOMB Magazine and Ugly Duckling Presse on the Señal Series of Latin American literature in translation. \nJohn Pluecker is a language worker who writes\, translates\, organizes\, interprets\, and creates. In 2010\, he co-founded the collaborative Antena and in 2015 the social justice interpreting collective Antena Houston. His undisciplinary work is informed by experimental poetics\, language justice\, and cross-border/cross-language cultural production. He has translated numerous books from the Spanish\, including most recently Gore Capitalism (Semiotext(e)\, 2018) and Antígona González (Les Figues Press\, 2016). His book of poetry and image\, Ford Over\, was released in 2016 from Noemi Press. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nMore info at Antena\nVIDEOS: Antena: Jen Hofer and John Pluecker at Vimeo \nRelated event: \nTripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series\nJen Hofer and John Pluecker \nreading from their poetry\nWednesday SEPT 26\n7:00pm @ E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\n410 13th Street (one block from 12th Street BART)\, Oakland\nfree and open to the public \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center
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LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Zulema Renee Summerfield / Every Other Weekend
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts Zulema Renee Summerfield for her debut novel\, Every Other Weekend. Please join us! \n  \nThe year is 1988\, and America is full of broken homes. The protagonist of this stunning debut novel is eight-year-old Nenny. Her life turns upside down when her parents announce they are getting a divorce. Her weekends are spent shuttling between their homes\, watching her mother move on quickly while her father struggles to keep it together. Nenny’s mother soon remarries and moves them into a home with her new husband and his own children. The memories of their former family life have been swept under the rug. \n  \nNenny has always been an anxious child with an overactive imagination but recently has had a creeping premonition that something terrible is going to happen. In her new home\, intimations of impending earthquakes (gulp) and neighborhood home invasions converge with ghosts from her stepfather’s days in Vietnam. Knock-kneed and a little stormy-eyed\, she is far too small for the thoughts that haunt her—yet her fears are not entirely unfounded. Indeed\, tragedy does come—in the most awful and unexpected way. \n  \nSet in the sun-scorched suburbs of California\, where teased hair and Bret Michaels mania reign supreme\, Every Other Weekend is a story about the surprising ways in which families fracture and reform. It’s a story of love lost and found\, and how sometimes the closest bonds we create come in the wake of unimaginable tragedy. \n  \n\n  \nZulema Renee Summerfield’s short fiction has appeared in the Threepenny Review\, Guernica\, and elsewhere. Her first book\, Everything Faces All Ways at Once\, is available from Fourteen Hills Press. A MacDowell Colony fellow\, she lives in Portland\, Oregon. \n  \n  \nThis event is free and all ages\, with mature themes. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
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LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Christian Kracht
DESCRIPTION:Christian Kracht reads from his new novel\, The Dead. \n\nPraise for Christian Kracht \n\n“Imperium is astonishing and captivating\, a tongue-in-cheek Conradian literary adventure for our time.” ―Karl Ove Knausgaard\, author of My Struggle \n\n“To say a word about Christian Kracht’s Imperium would be like engraving Goethe’s Conversations of German Refugees into an orange seed. Or perhaps into a coconut? The cocovore on his South Sea isle would consume it at some point\, and then the writing would be gone. But then shadowy mountains of fate would still form in the background: the German history behind the dropouts who made it by escaping it\, when the evil procession of fate halted for a moment. An adventure novel. No doubt. That there even is still such a thing.”―Elfriede Jelinek\, author of The Piano Teacher and Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature \n\n“Reads at times like the best Werner Herzog movie Herzog has yet to make.”―Tobias Carroll\, Biographile \n\nAbout The Dead \n\nIn The Dead\, the follow-up to his acclaimed novel Imperium (a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year)\, Christian Kracht mines the feverish film culture of the 1930s to produce a Gothic tale of global conspiracy\, personal loss\, and historical entanglements large and small. \n  \nIn Berlin\, Germany\, in the early 1930s\, the acclaimed Swiss film director Emil Nägeli receives the assignment of a lifetime: travel to Japan and make a film to establish the dominance of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi empire once and for all. But his handlers are unaware that Nägeli has colluded with the Jewish film critics to pursue an alternative objective―to create a monumental\, modernist\, allegorical spectacle to warn the world of the horror to come. \n  \nMeanwhile\, in Japan\, the film minister Masahiko Amakasu intends to counter Hollywood’s growing influence and usher in a new golden age of Japanese cinema by exploiting his Swiss visitor. The arrival of Nägeli’s film-star fiancée and a strangely thuggish\, pistol-packing Charlie Chaplin―as well as the first stirrings of the winds of war―soon complicates both Amakasu’s and Nägeli’s plans\, forcing them to face their demons . . . and their doom.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/christian-kracht/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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